Renowned Las Vegas showman Wayne Newton decided to sue NBC News after the company linked him to organized crime. The NBC correspondent reported that Newton used money earned from organized crime to buy a hotel in Las Vegas (Brown, p.30). ... This is what happened when Wayne Newton took NBC to court, he is one of few entertainers that have been named an all-purpose public figure (Pember, p. 165). ... Such was the case when the Enquirer printed a story that Friends star Matthew Perry had checked him into a rehabilitation hospital for a drug problem. ...

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